.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 332 197
Rank change year-on-year +109 -135 -53
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 802 365 1,015
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.85% 0.84% 1.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.33% 4.80% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 748 318 862
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,125 £50,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,625 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.73% +12.17% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,632 7,612 13,651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.24% 17.43% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 7,217 5,082 10,216
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £111,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.87% -8.15%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 11 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +103 207 £55,000 +7.32% 58
North of England +32 178 £55,000 -8.33% 40
East of England +67 118 £60,000 +14.29% 23
Midlands +20 110 £55,000 -8.33% 23
London -86 102 £80,000 - 83
South West -11 83 £52,500 +5.00% 12
North East +3 75 £65,000 +23.81% 9
North West -11 66 £50,000 -16.67% 22
West Midlands +1 64 £55,000 -8.33% 13
East Midlands +10 46 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Yorkshire -13 37 £48,750 -18.75% 10
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.00%) IIS
3 7 (0.87%) CMS
3 7 (0.87%) Confluence
4 4 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (0.50%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.37%) DNN
5 3 (0.37%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.37%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.37%) Kentico
5 3 (0.37%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Magento
1 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.25%) Shopify
2 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 650 (81.05%) Azure
2 218 (27.18%) Azure DevOps
3 156 (19.45%) GitHub
4 140 (17.46%) AWS
5 137 (17.08%) GitHub Copilot
6 134 (16.71%) Azure AI
7 75 (9.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 48 (5.99%) Azure Logic Apps
9 45 (5.61%) Power Platform
10 30 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
10 30 (3.74%) Power Automate
10 30 (3.74%) SaaS
11 28 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
12 27 (3.37%) PowerApps
13 24 (2.99%) Serverless
14 20 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (2.49%) Azure Key Vault
14 20 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (2.37%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (2.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.74%) Internet
2 7 (0.87%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.37%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.25%) Firewall
5 1 (0.12%) HTTP
5 1 (0.12%) Modbus
5 1 (0.12%) Network Security
5 1 (0.12%) SSL
5 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 448 (55.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 373 (46.51%) MongoDB
3 151 (18.83%) Elasticsearch
3 151 (18.83%) SQL Server
4 37 (4.61%) Power BI
5 23 (2.87%) MySQL
6 21 (2.62%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.50%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.37%) NonStop SQL
9 11 (1.37%) Redis
10 8 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (0.87%) GIS
11 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.37%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (0.37%) ZAP BI
14 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.12%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 65 (8.10%) Git
2 15 (1.87%) JIRA
3 10 (1.25%) GitLab
3 10 (1.25%) NUnit
4 7 (0.87%) Cypress.io
4 7 (0.87%) MSI
5 6 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.62%) Postman
6 5 (0.62%) Snyk
7 4 (0.50%) Selenium
7 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.37%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.37%) JUnit
8 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.37%) Vite
9 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.25%) webpack
10 1 (0.12%) MSTest
10 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 116 (14.46%) Finance
2 79 (9.85%) Social Skills
3 57 (7.11%) Advertising
4 46 (5.74%) Games
5 41 (5.11%) Marketing
6 35 (4.36%) Retail
7 29 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (3.12%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (2.74%) Law
9 22 (2.74%) Public Sector
10 16 (2.00%) Banking
11 14 (1.75%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.37%) Music Industry
13 10 (1.25%) Legal
14 9 (1.12%) Automotive
15 8 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.62%) Front Office
16 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.50%) Back Office
17 4 (0.50%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 671 (83.67%) Developer
2 529 (65.96%) .NET Developer
3 105 (13.09%) Senior
4 97 (12.09%) Software Developer
5 70 (8.73%) Senior Developer
6 61 (7.61%) C# Developer
7 57 (7.11%) Lead
8 47 (5.86%) C# .NET Developer
9 40 (4.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 37 (4.61%) Software Engineer
11 34 (4.24%) Lead Developer
12 29 (3.62%) .NET Software Developer
13 25 (3.12%) Senior Software Developer
14 21 (2.62%) Senior C# Developer
15 20 (2.49%) C# Software Developer
15 20 (2.49%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 20 (2.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 19 (2.37%) .NET Software Engineer
16 19 (2.37%) Senior .NET Developer
17 17 (2.12%) Lead .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 802 (100.00%) .NET
2 515 (64.21%) ASP.NET
3 450 (56.11%) ASP.NET Core
4 232 (28.93%) CSS
4 232 (28.93%) HTML
5 221 (27.56%) Entity Framework
6 212 (26.43%) Blazor
7 206 (25.69%) React
8 185 (23.07%) AngularJS
8 185 (23.07%) RESTful
9 174 (21.70%) Vue
10 172 (21.45%) ASP.NET Web API
11 159 (19.83%) Node.js
12 142 (17.71%) .NET Framework
13 134 (16.71%) ML.NET
14 108 (13.47%) LINQ
15 70 (8.73%) REST
16 44 (5.49%) JSON
17 37 (4.61%) WPF
18 24 (2.99%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 87 (10.85%) Greenfield Project
2 62 (7.73%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.62%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.49%) Digital TV
5 19 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (2.37%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.12%) iPhone
7 16 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.87%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.62%) Sports Betting
10 12 (1.50%) Social Network
11 11 (1.37%) BBC
11 11 (1.37%) Hedge funds
11 11 (1.37%) Social Media
12 10 (1.25%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.12%) Low-Code
14 7 (0.87%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.87%) Client/Server
14 7 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (0.87%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.49%) Windows
2 17 (2.12%) Android
3 7 (0.87%) VMS
4 4 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (65.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 422 (52.62%) Agile
3 267 (33.29%) CI/CD
4 265 (33.04%) DevOps
5 213 (26.56%) Microservices
6 164 (20.45%) AI
7 154 (19.20%) Machine Learning
8 146 (18.20%) Multithreading
9 100 (12.47%) Scrum
10 97 (12.09%) Software Engineering
11 88 (10.97%) OO
12 84 (10.47%) TDD
13 68 (8.48%) BDD
14 65 (8.10%) User Experience
15 62 (7.73%) Kanban
16 58 (7.23%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 53 (6.61%) SDLC
18 52 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
18 52 (6.48%) Problem-Solving
19 51 (6.36%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 749 (93.39%) C#
2 525 (65.46%) SQL
3 259 (32.29%) JavaScript
4 213 (26.56%) TypeScript
5 34 (4.24%) PowerShell
6 27 (3.37%) Python
7 14 (1.75%) T-SQL
8 13 (1.62%) Java
9 7 (0.87%) Bicep
10 6 (0.75%) Bash
10 6 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.50%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.37%) Go
12 3 (0.37%) Ruby
12 3 (0.37%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.37%) VBA
13 2 (0.25%) PHP
14 1 (0.12%) C
14 1 (0.12%) C++
14 1 (0.12%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 65 (8.10%) Degree
2 27 (3.37%) Security Cleared
3 25 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (3.12%) SC Cleared
4 8 (1.00%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.37%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.37%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.37%) OCP
6 3 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.25%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.62%) QA
2 25 (3.12%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.00%) WCAG
4 7 (0.87%) NCSC
5 4 (0.50%) GDPR
6 3 (0.37%) NIST
7 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) ITGC
8 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 198 (24.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 180 (22.44%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.49%) Terraform
3 3 (0.37%) Ansible
3 3 (0.37%) Grafana
3 3 (0.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 526 (65.59%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.61%) Facebook
3 46 (5.74%) Google
4 21 (2.62%) YouTube
5 19 (2.37%) Adobe
6 11 (1.37%) Apple
6 11 (1.37%) Sony
6 11 (1.37%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.75%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.75%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (0.50%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.50%) Workday
9 3 (0.37%) Alterian
9 3 (0.37%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.37%) Splunk
10 2 (0.25%) Databricks
10 2 (0.25%) IFS
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle
10 2 (0.25%) Veracode